What is the most common complaint against Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here?

The most common issue consumers report about Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here is "Communication tactics", specifically "Used obscene, profane, or other abusive language". This is based on 3 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Does Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here respond to consumer complaints?

Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

Q: Are complaints against Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

CFPB complaint profile across 1 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Communication tactics

2
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record central-atlantic-sales-inc-t-a-priority-buy-here-pay-here Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here

Grade B · 3 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Communication tactics · vol #3605 · compose #1229

VOL 3
GRADE B
12MO 0
STATES 1
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE Communication tactics
RANK #3,605
COMPOSE #1,229

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 950 Credit Inc (3 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here's 3 CFPB complaints sit next to 950 Credit Inc on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

100.0% of Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here's CFPB filings land in Virginia

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here is volume #3,605 but composite #1,229, while Virginia dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Virginia 100.0%; 3 of 3 filings · 1 states touched
Spike month: 2014-03 25.0%; 2 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #3,605 volume; #1,229 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,376 places better than volume

How does Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here compare to its peers?

How does Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

Central Atlantic Sales… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2013-08 2014-10

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Communication tactics	2
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	1

Where do complaints against Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here come from?

Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Virginia

3

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Central Atlantic Sales Inc. T/A Priority Buy Here Pay Here: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 3.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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